The challenge of HIV/Aids must be overcome as soon as humanly possible in order to produce a HIV/Aids-free generation. This was the message by deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe at the opening address of the 5th International Aids Society conference currently underway in Cape Town.

The AIDS community has become more afraid that the donor countries are finding in the global economic crisis a justifiable reason to avoid carrying out their commitments to AIDS treatment and prevention.

G8 leaders must meet their commitments to finance universal access to treatment and prevention despite the economic crisis, activists and scientists told the opening session of the Fifth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Cape Town tonight.

Work to curb the spread of AIDS in British Columbia hasn't slowed down any in the years since doctors here -- joined by Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr -- took on the federal government in a fight to save the lives of four men.